#futuring — Public Fediverse posts

Out now and #openaccess: my paper „The imaginative #landscape of #AI: Locating #SiliconValley’s quiet #futuring”

It’s based on my @com-ai.bsky.social media ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area during the last 12 months.

#pioneercommunities #AIsafety #AGI

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437261454515

I am very much looking forward to delivering my keynote today on #pioneer #communities and ‘quiet’ and ‘loud’ #futuring at the IAMCR conference ‘Creative Communication and Empowerment’ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

And to everyone listening: the research I have presented is being carried out at the @comai research unit and at @zemki, @unibremen.

Eva & Adele, “Hotel Chelsea. Cologne”, 1995, print on aluminium, 80 × 120 cm ★ Germany ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/art-contemporain-day-auction-2/hotel-chelsea-cologne ⦾ https://toiida.dreamwidth.org/867263.html #EvaAdele #EvaandAdele #contemporaryart #queerart #queerphotography #liveart #artdiary #futuring #performanceartists #artduos #partyartists #politicalpink #HotelChelsea #transgenderartists #genderfluid #corpses #1990s

Собирая этот твит узнал, что Ева (та, что на голову выше Адели) умерла в мае 2025 года, в середине долгой паузы, что была в этом треде.

Eva & Adele, “Hotel Chelsea. Cologne”, 1995, print on aluminium, 80 × 120 cm ★ Germany ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/art-contemporain-day-auction-2/hotel-chelsea-cologne ⦾ https://toiida.dreamwidth.org/867263.html #EvaAdele #EvaandAdele #contemporaryart #queerart #queerphotography #liveart #artdiary #futuring #performanceartists #artduos #partyartists #politicalpink #HotelChelsea #corpses #1990s

Собирая этот твит узнал, что Ева (та, что на голову выше Адели) умерла в мае 2025 года, в середине долгой паузы, что была в этом треде.

Futures and histories collide! Is it science fiction? time travel? Nope, it’s Food Studies!

Your reading pleasure this weekend = the future of food + a HISTORY of the future of food. (That is, a book review plus a companion media piece, as curated by us…)

Our first featured future is Sarah J. Martin’s review of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, in which chef Dan Barber imagines a meal in which taste and sustainability come together on a single plate. (CFS Vol. 1 No. 2 [2014]): https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

Focusing on future backwards is Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco. While Barber projects forwards, Belasco looks at how past forecasters proposed futures over the last two hundred years. How often do we repeat ourselves?

#FoodStudies
#FoodSecurity
#FoodHistory
#FoodFutures
#Futuring
#Meals
#WarrenBelasco
#DanBarber

Futures and histories collide! Is it science fiction? time travel? Nope, it’s Food Studies!

Your reading pleasure this weekend = the future of food + a HISTORY of the future of food. (That is, a book review plus a companion media piece, as curated by us…)

Our first featured future is Sarah J. Martin’s review of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, in which chef Dan Barber imagines a meal in which taste and sustainability come together on a single plate. (CFS Vol. 1 No. 2 [2014]): https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

Focusing on future backwards is Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco. While Barber projects forwards, Belasco looks at how past forecasters proposed futures over the last two hundred years. How often do we repeat ourselves?

#FoodStudies
#FoodSecurity
#FoodHistory
#FoodFutures
#Futuring
#Meals
#WarrenBelasco
#DanBarber

Ab 2.12. läuft in Linz am Theater Phönix TURNTON - TELL ME ABOUT IT, das gemeinsam mit @TimesUp entstanden ist und Besucher*innen in einem immersiven Hörspiel in die Medusa Bar einlädt. Premiere ist zwar schon voll, aber es gibt noch Karten für die anderen Vorstellungen. #immersive #hörspiel #timesup #futuring #turnton2047 https://www.theater-phoenix.at/stueck/tell-me-about-it

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for #RegenerativeInnovation* #PhD #Funding at #DundeeUni:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL167/leverhulme-doctoral-programme-for-regenerative-innovation-regnr8-i

Special plug for projects w research group colleagues 😊

1) Regenerating Healthcare Pathways for Equitable Health and Wellbeing
#Futuring #Foresight #Participatory

2) Co-Designing Regenerative Therapeutic Spaces
#Participatory #MixedMethods

#HealthCare #DesignResearch #Regnr8i #Sustainability #Restorative
* More info here:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding/leverhulme-doctoral-scholars-programme

Check this hopeful TED-talk in which Ruha Benjamin imagines Ustopias. 'Ustopias are built on an understanding that all of our struggles, from climate justice to racial justice, are interconnected, that we are interconnected.'
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruha_benjamin_is_technology_our_savior_or_our_slayer

This is more than imagining, it is possibility thinking.
#Commons #Commoning #SolarPunk #Futuring #Technology #PeopleOverProfit #RuhaBenjamin #FocusOpHetGoede

Check this hopeful TED-talk in which Ruha Benjamin imagines Ustopias. 'Ustopias are built on an understanding that all of our struggles, from climate justice to racial justice, are interconnected, that we are interconnected.'
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruha_benjamin_is_technology_our_savior_or_our_slayer

This is more than imagining, it is possibility thinking.
#Commons #Commoning #SolarPunk #Futuring #Technology #PeopleOverProfit #RuhaBenjamin #FocusOpHetGoede

Heute auf dem Weg nach Linz ins Theater Phönix, für ein gemeinsames Treffen mit Time‘s Up #theater #medienkunst #futuring #turnton2047

'In fact, the very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is itself an act of hope.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 1/52 ★★★★★

Mijn bespreking in 🇳🇱:
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/01/02/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-boekbespreking/

My review in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6992653316

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Scifi #Afrofuturism #Futuring #Toekomsten #Quotes #Citeren #Essay

'In fact, the very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is itself an act of hope.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 1/52 ★★★★★

Mijn bespreking in 🇳🇱:
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/01/02/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-boekbespreking/

My review in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6992653316

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Scifi #Afrofuturism #Futuring #Toekomsten #Quotes #Citeren #Essay

6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia … of sorts.

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #RPG #roleplayingGame #gaming #gamer #GameDesign #TTRPG #TableTopRolePlaying #TableTop #CharacterCreation #economy #policy #PoliticalSystem #politics #WorldBuilding #Future #futuring #cyberpunk

6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia … of sorts.

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #RPG #roleplayingGame #gaming #gamer #GameDesign #TTRPG #TableTopRolePlaying #TableTop #CharacterCreation #economy #policy #PoliticalSystem #politics #WorldBuilding #Future #futuring #cyberpunk

Season 4 episode 9.5: The Fantasies of Post apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction (Special Extra Bonus Half Episode)

There was so much to explore about post-apocalyptic fiction and the fantasies it allows us to have of, for instance, being the colonized "good guys" instead of the colonizer "bad guys" that we ended up with an entire extra half episode. What is the moral responsibility of reading post-apocalyptic science fiction? How should we feel about enjoying works that position white colonizers as victims?

Here it is! Enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/mBD_OMACgZc?si=uhDrccNnuVJxEmwd

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 4 episode 9.5: The Fantasies of Post apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction (Special Extra Bonus Half Episode)

There was so much to explore about post-apocalyptic fiction and the fantasies it allows us to have of, for instance, being the colonized "good guys" instead of the colonizer "bad guys" that we ended up with an entire extra half episode. What is the moral responsibility of reading post-apocalyptic science fiction? How should we feel about enjoying works that position white colonizers as victims?

Here it is! Enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/mBD_OMACgZc?si=uhDrccNnuVJxEmwd

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 4 episode 9: The Fantasies of Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction, with Ariel Kroon

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own Ariel Kroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=fJgNd4RkpoUk_fH2

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 4 episode 9: The Fantasies of Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction, with Ariel Kroon

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own Ariel Kroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=fJgNd4RkpoUk_fH2

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub

Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.

Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher

Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub

Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.

Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher

Morgen – 3. Juli, 18:30h – ist wieder ein Futures Lounge Event auf Zoom. Das Thema klingt sehr spannend für alle die sich für #Futuring #KI und #PolicyMaking interessieren:

*KI – ein Schlüssel zur Welt von morgen. Passt er zur deutschen KI-Strategie?*

https://6l5ml.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHW0Xa1nx7YPBwgIqZ/nyZKy-lA2jBD

Morgen – 3. Juli, 18:30h – ist wieder ein Futures Lounge Event auf Zoom. Das Thema klingt sehr spannend für alle die sich für #Futuring #KI und #PolicyMaking interessieren:

*KI – ein Schlüssel zur Welt von morgen. Passt er zur deutschen KI-Strategie?*

https://6l5ml.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHW0Xa1nx7YPBwgIqZ/nyZKy-lA2jBD

Last week in #Paris was really inspiring! If you find yourself in the city and need some recommendations, I enjoyed these exhibitions focused on #design, #futuring, #art and #sport.

Musée du Luxembourg:
MATCH
Design & Sport - A Story Looking to the Future

Lafayette Anticipations:
Coming Soon
While waiting for tomorrow

(Photos @ Lafayette Anticipations)

Last week in #Paris was really inspiring! If you find yourself in the city and need some recommendations, I enjoyed these exhibitions focused on #design, #futuring, #art and #sport.

Musée du Luxembourg:
MATCH
Design & Sport - A Story Looking to the Future

Lafayette Anticipations:
Coming Soon
While waiting for tomorrow

(Photos @ Lafayette Anticipations)

Last week in #Paris was really inspiring! If you find yourself in the city and need some recommendations, I enjoyed these exhibitions focused on #design, #futuring, #art and #sport.

Musée du Luxembourg:
MATCH
Design & Sport - A Story Looking to the Future

Lafayette Anticipations:
Coming Soon
While waiting for tomorrow

(Photos @ Lafayette Anticipations)

⏰Today is the last day to apply for our #Futuring for #Sustainability summer school for graduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds that we are hosting from 8-12 July at the Botanical Gardens at Utrecht University https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/social-sciences/futuring-for-sustainability-anxiety-backlash-and-the-political

⏰Today is the last day to apply for our #Futuring for #Sustainability summer school for graduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds that we are hosting from 8-12 July at the Botanical Gardens at Utrecht University https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/social-sciences/futuring-for-sustainability-anxiety-backlash-and-the-political

Talking to an enthusiastic audience who wanted to know more about what this futuring thing is.

https://loosediary.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/talking-about-writing

#ExperientialFutures #Turnton2047 #TUFuturing #futuring #future #newbook

Had a really nice time visiting the Graphic and Media Design program at UAL London College of Communication. Thanks for Having me! 🙏

It was super to reconnect with familiar faces, meet the talented students and tutors of GMD.

A recording of my talk "Design ╳ Futuring" should be coming up at the CRITICAL FORUM archive website 👉 https://criticalforum.gmdlcc.com/archive/

#designeducation #design #futuring #designfuturing

Had a really nice time visiting the Graphic and Media Design program at UAL London College of Communication. Thanks for Having me! 🙏

It was super to reconnect with familiar faces, meet the talented students and tutors of GMD.

A recording of my talk "Design ╳ Futuring" should be coming up at the CRITICAL FORUM archive website 👉 https://criticalforum.gmdlcc.com/archive/

#designeducation #design #futuring #designfuturing

Exhibition Opening - last week: "Pick A Ticket" at ZOOM Kindermuseum. Watching kids being curious and excited is simply a great time to spend time with.
#ExperientialFutures #Turnton2047 #TUFuturing #futuring #future #vienna #exhibition #travel

https://loosediary.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/kids-picking-their-tickets-for-2047

"Hundreds of years ago, they used to throw you in prison for not paying your debts. They sold you into servitude. You spent the rest of your life waiting hand and foot on some spoiled rich gent.
That's going to make a comeback.
It's not going to be fun.
These conditions already exist in the world. They're not a future fiction for millions. They're a present reality."
https://www.okdoomer.io/?ref=ok-doomer-newsletter
#futuring #polycrisis #climateChaos

Here it is – the autumn postcard from Time’s Up – soon on its way from the printer to us… We’ll be happy to distribute it to mailboxes all over the world. Let us know if you want to have it. Include your postal address in an e-mail ([email protected]) to and we will add it to our mailing list.

#update #news #activities #newbook #futuring #arselectronica

https://loosediary.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/seasonal-postcard-autumn-23/

What could the #campus look like in 2040 to fit in well with rapidly changing #education?

With the Future Campus project, @SURF is investigating how the campus should change along with technological and social trends.

Read more & join the discussion 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/07/11/future-campus-what-will-your-campus-look-like-in-2040

The article by @Jan is also featured in the latest issue of GÉANT's CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT43! 📰 https://connect.geant.org/connect43

@irishuisintveld #Future #FutureCampus #edtech #futuring #SURF

What could the #campus look like in 2040 to fit in well with rapidly changing #education?

With the Future Campus project, @SURF is investigating how the campus should change along with technological and social trends.

Read more & join the discussion 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/07/11/future-campus-what-will-your-campus-look-like-in-2040

The article by @Jan is also featured in the latest issue of GÉANT's CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT43! 📰 https://connect.geant.org/connect43

@irishuisintveld #Future #FutureCampus #edtech #futuring #SURF

Hoe zorgen we dat we aan het roer blijven bij nieuwe technologieën zoals #ChatGPT?

In deze SURFsounds praten Gül Akcaova (@Guul), lead futurist bij SURF, en Mike Klaassen, programmamanager onderwijs bij Breda University of Applied Sciences, over de discipline Futuring.

En wat dat voor het onderwijs kan doen in tijden van snel veranderende technologieën.

Luister de podcast 👉 https://edu.nl/9ucye

#onderwijs #futuring

Hoe zorgen we dat we aan het roer blijven bij nieuwe technologieën zoals #ChatGPT?

In deze SURFsounds praten Gül Akcaova (@Guul), lead futurist bij SURF, en Mike Klaassen, programmamanager onderwijs bij Breda University of Applied Sciences, over de discipline Futuring.

En wat dat voor het onderwijs kan doen in tijden van snel veranderende technologieën.

Luister de podcast 👉 https://edu.nl/9ucye

#onderwijs #futuring

At the Urban Futures Studio, we work with concepts like #Futuring Watch this 3 min. video we created for our 2020 summer school, where UFS director @maartenhajer explains 'Futuring' and how we can learn more about the future by looking at the present. https://vimeo.com/437341296

At the Urban Futures Studio, we work with concepts like #Futuring Watch this 3 min. video we created for our 2020 summer school, where UFS director @maartenhajer explains 'Futuring' and how we can learn more about the future by looking at the present. https://vimeo.com/437341296

Denk jij mee over de #campus van de toekomst 🔮?

In het project Future Campus onderzoeken we hoe de campus eruit ziet in 2040.

Meer weten? Of wil je meedoen? Lees meer over future campus: https://www.surf.nl/future-campus-project-scenarios-voor-de-campus-van-morgen

#onderwijs #futuring